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I am a senior adult woman. I have read your website. I live in St. Paul, MN at present. I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for twenty years (1970' & 1980"s). Beginning in the late '70's and through most of the 80's I had a Kundalini Awakening. I was not meditating at the time, although I certainly knew how to. It took a gifted psychic older friend to tell me what I was going through. It was an odyssey for me with many twists and turns but, all things considered, I was lucky. I now understand that I experienced mostly the mystical end of the phenonemon. I had no one to guide me and, well anyway, I eventually turned away from the direct experience, yet phenomenon (mostly pleasing) persisted for years, and still do in a far more subtle way. Nevertheless, at that time, I also had wide mood swings that I attributed to my dysfunctional childhood, and that finally drove me away from meditation. (It's complicated, as it usually is!!) I later returned to meditation but am not consistent. I find myself now, many years later, due to a catalyst in my life, investigating kundalini. I feel like such a fool because it is now widely proliferated throughout the internet (a path that I have largely ignored because I don't care for it), and I might have found you years ago. I am writing this history in this 'comment' space because I do not know how else to contact someone who reliably knows about kundalini. (I know a lot of people surely proclaim to know but one must be prudent ... something I only learned with age!) I have signed up for your newsletter, but I hope to find someone in my city who reliably understands the kundalini process. I have had many years of therapy (in many settings intermittantly over the last 40 years) to heal and integrate my past. Recently, however, when I directly began discussing my deep spiritual nature and kundalini, my therapist just threw up her hands in bewilderment. Therefore, I am also looking for a Transpersonal(?) Therapist, but one who understands kundalini, who might want to work with me. To be clear, I would like to discuss with someone learned on the subject, AND I am looking to integrate more on a therapeutic level. So, I hope you will respond to my comments, at least briefly, and give me some references as to the next step in my quest. You have my permission to share this with someone who might assist me. Thank you for reading this.